Welcome to the Frederick Puzzler's Corner
This is a monthly event to encourage puzzle solving in the geocaching community, and all are welcome.
May 2nd is National Play Your Ukulele Day. Okay - how many of you play the ukulele? And what, you may ask, has that got to do with geocaching?!? Well, nothing really, unless you keep lots of ukulele music in your playlists and prefer that over the sounds of the woods or traffic or fellow hunters when you are out caching. It’s just another of those little-known ways of making another day one for celebration. But wouldn’t it be fun to cache in Hawai’i every day… ! This is also Bike Month, so be careful, and don’t try to play your uke while riding your bike!
And now, for the usual spiel…
This event is open to all cachers, no matter what your statistics say or whether you even like puzzles! So newbies and addicts, socialites and lone wolves, mark you calendar.
If you've got a puzzle or mystery cache that's currently got you stumped and you'd like to pick some brains, this event is for you! Zombies are not welcome here though, so please leave your pets at home - we want everyone to leave with the brains they brought, at minimum.
There may be a short tutorial on some aspect of puzzle solving, or just brain crunching, from small groups to the whole horde working on a large collaboration. You don't have to work on puzzles to enjoy this. But if you want to, you'll have plenty of others to commiserate with, or maybe find that someone has already solved a puzzle using a similar technique. We continue to see successes at each gathering.
For the puzzle junkies, bring your puzzle paraphenalia - cache listings, laptop or tablet (Wi-Fi is available), theories, worksheets, (sp)eye glasses, abacus, scratch paper (don’t forget your writing instrument) - you never know who (or what) will show up, and what kind of help you might encounter. Maybe you’ve recently cracked a tough one and want to see the wheels spinning while others tackle it - that can be loads of fun! If you have a topic you'd like to learn more about, or have a specific puzzle you'd like to have the group focus on, feel free to make note of it in your logs.
When: Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 6pm - 8pm
Where: Wegman's Market Cafe
7830 Worman's Mill Road
Frederick, MD
If you also bring your appetite, all costs are your own responsibility.
Field trips not included. (But it's a good time to plan them!)